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Struzan, Drew
(1947-2025) US artist who first studied his craft at the ArtCenter College of Design, then located in Los Angeles, California. He was first employed as a staff artist at the design studio Pacific Eye & Ear, producing many music album covers, but became better known for film posters. Early work in this area included posters for the H G Wells-based Food of the Gods (1976) and ...
Aratus
Pseudonym of the unidentified author (? -? ) of A Voyage to the Moon, Strongly Recommended to All Lovers of Real Freedom (1793 chap) a thinly disguised Satire on British Politics and society (see Sociology). Written at the time of both the French and American Revolutions and during the anti-radical administration of William Pitt the Younger, it is a polemic for ...
Quatermass and the Pit
1. UK tv serial (1958-1959). BBC TV. Produced and directed by Rudolph Cartier. Written Nigel Kneale. Cast includes Anthony Bushell, Christine Finn, Cec Linder, André Morell, Richard Shaw and Brian Worth. Six 35-minute episodes. Black and white. / As in Quatermass and the Pit's two predecessors, The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and ...
Wonder Story Annual
US reprint Pulp magazine published by Better Publications, 1950, and Best Books, 1951-1953, both imprints of Standard Magazines; edited 1950-1951 by Sam Merwin Jr and 1952-1953 by Samuel Mines. The first issue was a bumper 196 pages. The magazine was taking advantage of the publisher's backlog of material bought for Wonder Stories and ...
Price, E Hoffmann
(1898-1988) US author whose career lasted 64 years. He served in World War One, graduated West Point in 1923, and began to publish weird fiction – the genre for which he is remembered – with "Triangle with Variations" in Droll Stories for June 1924. By the time he stopped writing for the Pulp magazines in the 1950s he had published hundreds of stories in dozens of outlets, sometimes as Hamlin Daly, and often drawing upon Oriental and near-Eastern ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...